Huge loops of plasma—superheated, charged gas—rise from an active region on the sun in a newly released picture from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Each loop is as tall as several Earths stacked on top of each other. The plasma loops trace the sun’s otherwise invisible magnetic field lines, which rise from the star’s magnetically active regions—the starting points for huge eruptions of radiation known as solar flares.
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Huge loops of plasma—superheated, charged gas—rise from an active region on the sun in a newly released picture from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Each loop is as tall as several Earths stacked on top of each other.

The plasma loops trace the sun’s otherwise invisible magnetic field lines, which rise from the star’s magnetically active regions—the starting points for huge eruptions of radiation known as solar flares.

(via the-rx)

Source: National Geographic

scipsy: 23 January 2012 a large solar flare triggered a coronal mass ejection travelling at 1400 km/s. A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a huge cloud of magnetised plasma from the Sun’s atmosphere – the corona – thrown into interplanetary space CMEs can produce geomagnetic storms when they reach Earth.  Here you can watch an impressive video. (via ESA)
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scipsy:

23 January 2012 a large solar flare triggered a coronal mass ejection travelling at 1400 km/s.

A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a huge cloud of magnetised plasma from the Sun’s atmosphere – the corona – thrown into interplanetary space

CMEs can produce geomagnetic storms when they reach Earth. 

Here you can watch an impressive video. (via ESA)

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